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Ceramics: A Potter's Handbook

An illustrated guide to ceramics that covers clay types and bodies, early and later ceramic history, hand-building techniques, wheel techniques, decorating and glazing, kilns and firing, and the professional potter; also includes several appendixes, a glossary, and a bibliography.

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  • "An illustrated guide to ceramics that covers clay types and bodies, early and later ceramic history, hand-building techniques, wheel techniques, decorating and glazing, kilns and firing, and the professional potter; also includes several appendixes, a glossary, and a bibliography."@en
  • ""This classic handbook introduces students to the fundamentals of the ceramic arts, beginning with a comprehensive history of ceramic materials, techniques, and practices up to the present day and then moving to a detailed presentation of ceramic techniques from the most basic to the complex. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to incorporate the many new resources and materials available to ceramists as well as the most current techniques and technical and safety information."--Amazon."
  • "An Introduction to the fundamentals of the ceramic arts, beginning with a comprehensive history of ceramic materials, techniques, and practices up to the present day and then moving to a detailed presentation of ceramic techniques from the most basic to the complex."
  • "Ceramics is a studio handbook for the practicing potter, intended to provide essential information on the history of man's accomplishment in clay and glazes and on the means of transforming raw, wet clay into fired and finished pieces. Prepared as a guide for the amature as well as a reference volume for more experienced artists and craftsmen, Ceramics offers, first, an introduction to the art of ceramics through critical review of significant historical and modern works selected from cultures around the world. The text then follows a sequence of technical explanations that begins with the properties and preparation of clay and proceeds through the means of forming clay, the principles of ceramic form and design, and the possibilities for decoratioin and glazing, to the activity and environment of the professional potter, the operatin and construction of kilns, and a survey of the equipment appropriate for the complete ceramic studio. Concluding the book are appendices offering more technical and tabular data, sources of supplies, and a bibliography of published references. A glossary sharpens the usage of technical terms already defined on their introduction in the text. ... cover."
  • "This classic handbook introduces students to the fundamentals of the ceramic arts, beginning with a comprehensive history of ceramic materials, techniques, and practices up to the present day and then moving to a detailed presentation of ceramic techniques from the most basic to the complex. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to incorporate the many new resources and materials available to ceramists as well as the most current techniques and technical and safety information."@en

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  • "A potter's handbook : ceramics"
  • "Ceramics: A Potter's Handbook"@en
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  • "Ceramics : a potter's handbook. 3rd ed"
  • "Ceramics; a potter's handbook [by] Glenn C. Nelson"@en
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  • "Ceramics : A Potter's Handbook"
  • "A Potters handbook"
  • "Ceramics. A potter's handbook. Third edition"@en
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